Ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords walks slowly with a cane and talks slowly. But the former congresswoman who was victim of an assassin puts powerful emphasis on every word that she speaks. “Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women,”Giffords told a lunch of Initiative 594 supporters on Wednesday. ”Abusers with guns, criminals with guns make this a […]
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The nationally watched battle over Initiative 594, designed to close the “gun show loophole,” is drawing firepower as ballots go out across Washington. Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, severely wounded in 2011 as she met constituents in a Tucson, Ariz., shopping mall, is coming to Seattle next Wednesday to campaign for the initiative. After showing […]
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The Arizona congresswoman shot by an assassin at a 2011 Tucson town meeting came to a packed Olympia hearing on Tuesday, appealing to Washington legislators and voters to close the “gun show loophole” on firearms purchases. “The last few years have been hard: Stopping gun violence takes courage to do what’s right and new […]
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A right-wing Wall Street Journal columnist, James Taranto, first had harsh words for ex-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ op-ed piece “A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip,” run in the New York Times, and then doubled down with an intimation that Giffords did not write the piece at all. Appearing on the National Rifle Association news […]
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Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, gravely wounded in a Tucson mass killing, is narrating a new TV spot with films of Sandy Hook Elementary School and calls for Congress to act on gun safety legislation. Giffords has not fully recovered her powers of speech, but displayed a powerful, emphatic voice at a recent Senate hearing. […]
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Ex-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly are launching a nationwide initiative aimed at curbing gun violence, on the second anniversary of the assassination in a Tucson shopping mall that killed 16 people and critically injured the Arizona congresswoman. In an op-ed piece for USA Today, Giffords and Kelly announced a new […]
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A succession of mass shootings, including those in this state, cry out for such measures as closing the “gun show loophole” and securing guns from children, but Washington won’t see this happen until and unless citizens take on the gun lobby, the Democratic leader in the Washington State Senate said Friday. “The problem goes on, […]
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Even as details about the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting are still emerging, Rush Limbaugh claims that the shooting will be used by liberals to attack conservatives, second amendment and Republicans, reports Real Clear Politics. “It is terrible, incomprehensible but I’m going to tell you something – as we sit here at this very moment, [...]
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